Both tendencies are rooted in the background of the rising sociological model, and caused the debate on how to write a novel during that time, getting deep into the understanding of novel identity.

A study of fiction anthology in series of YUCHU;

A fiction anthology of Ming Dynasty is a collection of novels or short stories of a fictionist.

After the Southern Song Dynasty,along with the southward moving of the economical center and the cultural center,the vernacular novels grew rapidly in the south Yangtze River area and became mature in the Ming Dynasty.

With a rhetoric perspective, this paper aims to lead a deep and systematic research on touhui (a special commencing in vernacular novel, namely, to tell a short story relevant or irrelevant to the texts before starting narration).

The article makes a summary about the special narrative mode of the "simulated story-telling locale"of vernacular novels from the perspective of thenarration studies.